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Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:50:23 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	fubar@...ibm.com, nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: convert bonding to use rx_handler

On 18.02.2011 15:58, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 03:46:45PM CET, kaber@...sh.net wrote:
>> Am 18.02.2011 15:27, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
>>> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 15:14 +0100, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Do not know how to do it better. As for percpu variable, not only
>>>> origdev would have to be remembered but also probably skb pointer to
>>>> know if it's the first run on the skb or not. Can't really figure out a
>>>> better solution. Can you?
>>>
>>> I'll try and let you know.
>>
>> Why not simply do a lookup on skb->iif?
> 
> Well I was trying to avoid iterating over list of devices for each
> incoming frame.
> 

Well, there are a couple of holes on 64 bit, perhaps you can rearrange
things and eliminate either iif or input_dev without increasing size
since they appear to be redundant.
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